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The crisp, distinctive voice of Vanessa Redgrave, star of stage and screen, will be heard on the audiobook recording of Blue Nights. Close followers of Joan Didion’s work will recall that Redgrave was the actress cast to play the role of Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play when it opened on Broadway in March, 2007. [...]
Joan Didion attended the opening night of Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway at John Golden Theatre on October 24, 2010 in New York City. Vanessa Redgrave, known to Didion fans for her role in the theatrical version of The Year of Magical Thinking, plays the title character, Miss Daisy Werthan. She is a Southern Jewish septuagenarian [...]
In a blog post on the Times website, Timothy Egan wrote yesterday about those who find success relatively late in life. At one time, he coveted the ‘wunderkind’, the young genius who produces brilliant work early on in their career, like F. Scott Fitzgerald or Vincent van Gogh. But now, perhaps through necessity, he finds inspiration [...]
Vanessa Redgrave, the Academy Award-winning actress, recently gave an interview to BBC Radio 4 in which she spoke about the death of three members of her immediate family in the last year and a half. In March of last year, Redgrave’s daughter, the actress Natasha Richardson, died following a skiing accident. She was 45. Then, [...]
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York has announced new dates for a special charity performance of “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play” starring Vanessa Redgrave. The date had been set for April, but was delayed due to the unexpected death of Natasha Richardson, Redgrave’s daughter. It will now [...]
Vanessa Redgrave will go ahead with a special performance of The Year of Magical Thinking – a one-woman stage show based on Joan Didion’s wrenching account of losing her husband and daughter — despite daughter Natasha Richardson’s recent death, the New York Post reports (incorrectly). The performance at New York’s Cathedral at St. John the Divine is scheduled for [...]
From The New York Times on Friday, March 20th: The actress Natasha Richardson, who died on Wednesday from a brain hemorrhage after a fall on a beginner’s ski slope in Quebec, was not admitted to a hospital until nearly four hours after her accident, according to ambulance dispatch records obtained by the New York Times on Friday. [...]
Natasha Richardson, the wife of Irish actor Liam Neeson and daughter of Vanessa Redgrave (who played Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play), has died. The Montreal Gazette reports that Richardson suffered a traumatic brain injury while skiing in Canada. She was walking around for an hour after the accident, says a Mont Tremblant [...]
